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Un security Council begins late-night emergency session at request of Russia

Anthrax attack suspect Bruce E. Ivins took several hours of administrative leave from his Fort Detrick, Md., laboratory on a critical day in September 2001 when the first batch of deadly letters was dropped in a New Jersey mailbox, government sources briefed on the case said yesterday.

More than 400 Tibetan exiles have been detained in the Nepalese capital following a protest outside the Chinese Embassy office, police said Friday.

GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza's Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) militant group on Thursday warned Israel that a truce between Israel and Hamas which went into effect on June 19 was in danger of collapse, saying it could end in three weeks.

MANILA (Reuters) - Muslim rebels agreed to leave Catholic farming villages in the southern Philippines after the government gave them 24 hours to pull out or face a combined military and police offensive.

United nations (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted on Thursday to keep the united nations mission in Iraq for another year, as Baghdad urged the world body to do more to help it transform into a functioning democracy.

In long-overshadowed war in Afghanistan, US deaths reach 500; civilians also face higher toll

Troops from the former Soviet republic of Georgia launched new attacks on the breakaway territory of South Ossetia late Thursday after a top government official said a unilateral cease-fire offer was met with artillery fire.

Georgian troops have launched a major offensive to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia with fighting raging on the outskirts of the separatist capital, officials and news reports say.

Canadian soldiers, their NATO allies and Afghan forces launch major offensive in northern part of Kandahar